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AFL Queensland Women's League
There are five senior women's AFL leagues in Queensland governed by AFL Queensland. The Queensland Australian Football League Women's (QAFLW) is the highest league in the State and provides elite women footballers the opportunity to play in a semi-professional environment. Many players from this league have represented their State, earned All-Australian honours, and participated in AFLW. The second-tier of women's football in South-East Queensland is the Queensland Football Association Women's (QFAW), which was introduced in 2017. This competition is designed to allow women who are new to the game to develop their football understanding and skills, and also provide new clubs with an entry point into women's football. Clubs QAFLW Clubs QFAW Division 1 Clubs QFAW Division 2 Clubs North South Premiers QAFLW Grand Finals Premierships by Club Premiership tallies for the premier women's competition in Queensland (AFLQ Womens League 2001-2011, SEQAFL Womens League 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AFL Queensland
AFL Queensland (AFLQ) is the governing body of Australian rules football in Queensland. AFL Queensland has over 216,000 participants (including Northern Rivers which is governed by AFLQ) playing at all levels of football from the introductory NAB AFL Auskick program to the AFL Masters Competition. AFL Queensland covers 13 regions, 24 leagues and 159 clubs. These bodies include Affiliated Leagues Premier South East Queensland Leagues The highest grades of men's and women's Queensland community football are: * Queensland Australian Football League (QAFL) (1903-) * AFL Queensland Women's League (QWAFL) (2001-) * North East Australian Football League (NEAFL) (was the highest level from 2010-2020) Developmental Leagues * Queensland Football Association (QFA) (AFL Northern Rivers Regional Leagues *AFL Cairns (1956-) * AFL Capricornia (1969-) *AFL Darling Downs (1971-) * AFL Mackay (1970-) * AFL Mount Isa (1967-) * AFL Northern Rivers (reintroduced 2017) *AFL Sunshine Coast (reint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bond University Football Club
Bond University AFL, nicknamed as the ''Bull Sharks'', is a Gold Coast based Australian rules football club operating out of Bond University. The club currently competes in the Queensland Football Association Division Two and the Queensland Women's Football League competitions. The club is currently one of two universities that supply teams to AFL Queensland, the other being University of Queensland. History The Bond University Football Club was formed in 2011 and entered the AFLQ Division 3 Central league for their inaugural season. Bond would play home games at the Robina Roos' ground on Scottsdale Drive due to unsuitable facilities existing at the university. Nicknamed the Bull Sharks, the club surprised many by compiling a 14–1 record through the home and away season to claim the minor premiership. Bond would suffer a 31-point loss to Jimboomba in the 2011 Grand Final. The club was then transferred to the newly created SEQAFL Division 4 South league which was a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Lucia, Queensland
St Lucia is a riverside suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the St Lucia had a population of 12,574 people. The University of Queensland is the main attraction of St Lucia, with the university, and residential colleges covering a large proportion of the suburb. St Lucia is home to a diverse range of people and families. Typically, the student population of St Lucia is high, especially in dwellings in the immediate vicinity of the university, but the suburb is also home to wealthy professionals and families. Geography St Lucia is located by road southwest of the Brisbane GPO. The suburb sits on a peninsula, bounded on the north, east and south by the median in a bend of the Brisbane River. The eastern third of the suburb is occupied by the main campus of the University of Queensland. The flatter area on the northern side is primarily medium to high density residential including some high-rise apartments on the river-front. The more hilly area in the centre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Queensland
, mottoeng = By means of knowledge and hard work , established = , endowment = A$224.3 million , budget = A$2.1 billion , type = Public research university , chancellor = Peter Varghese , vice_chancellor = Deborah Terry , city = Brisbane, Queensland, Australia , students = 55,305 (2019) , undergrad = 35,051 (2019) , postgrad = 19,939 (2019) , faculty = 2,854 , campus = Multiple sites , colours = Purple , affiliations = Group of EightUniversitas 21 ASAIHL EdX , website = , logo = Logo of the University of Queensland.svg , coor = The University of Queensland (UQ, or Queensland University) is a public research university located primarily in Brisbane, the capital city of the Australian state of Queensland. Founded in 1909 by the Queensland parliament, UQ is one of the six sandstone universities, an informal designation of the oldest university in each state. As per 2023, The University of Queensland is ranked as 2nd in Australia and 42nd in the world. Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southport, Queensland
Southport is a coastal Suburbs and localities (Australia), suburb in the City of Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. In the , Southport had a population of 31,908 people. It contains the Gold Coast central business district. Geography Southport is bounded to the south-east by the Nerang River (), where it flows into Gold Coast Broadwater, The Broadwater, the southernmost end of Moreton Bay, which then bounds the suburb to the north-east. King Reach is a reach () of the Nerang River. It was named in honour of Jeremy King (3 March 1935 - 13 October 2010) for his coaching, involvement and dedication to the sport of rowing within the Southport district. He was involved with rowing for over 50 years. It was gazetted on 28 November 2014. Ray Newlyn Channel is a channel () in The Broadwater. It is an east-to-west channel across The Broadwater to Main Beach, Queensland, Main Beach avoiding two large sandbanks. Raymond Paul (Ray) Newlyn was a Southport resident and a Commander in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fankhauser Reserve
Fankhauser Reserve is a multi-sports venue in Southport, a suburb in the Gold Coast, Australia. It has been used by the NEAFL's Southport Australian Football Club team as their home game base. The Gold Coast Suns reserves side also occasionally uses the ground for home matches. The ground also hosted a match for premiership points in the 2020 AFL Women's season. In 1987 the Southport Sharks' board of directors submitted a proposal to the local council to build a professional Australian rules football ground and licensed club on the 31 acres of land located on the corner of Musgrave and Olsen Avenues. The submission was approved and the Sharks were granted a 50-year lease on the site. Construction of the $2.7 million development began in 1988 and was completed in February 1989. The ground was named after then Sharks vice president Wally Fankhauser who donated $2.2 million towards the new headquarters. See also * Sports on the Gold Coast, Queensland Sport on the Gold Coas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southport Australian Football Club
Southport Australian Football Club, nicknamed the Sharks, is an Australian rules football club based on the Gold Coast, Queensland, that competes in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Southport is one of the most successful football clubs in Queensland, having claimed 22 senior-grade premierships across multiple competitions since it was established in 1961. It competed in the Gold Coast Australian Football League between 1961 and 1982, and then moved to the Queensland Australian Football League. In 2011 the club was elevated to the North East Australian Football League (NEAFL), before finally being accepted into the Victorian Football League following the NEAFL's cessation in 2019. Since 2020 Southport has fielded a senior women's team in Division 1 of the QAFLW competition; the club won its inaugural women's premiership in 2020. History Formation and early GCAFL years (1961–1982) On 22 May 1961, the Southport Australian Football Club was formed and six days later the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maroochydore Multi Sports Complex
Maroochydore Multi Sports Complex is a multi-purpose community sports facility located in Maroochydore, Sunshine Coast, Queensland. Overview Maroochydore Multi Sports Complex has three floodlit ovals for Australian rules football, three soccer pitches and more than 20 floodlit outdoor netball courts. The complex regularly hosts community events for these sports, and has also hosted a pre-season Australian Football League (AFL) match in 2012. The Brisbane Lions women's team played several of their home matches throughout the 2022 season at the complex, prior to moving to their permanent ground in Springfield in 2023. Maroochydore Football Club plays home matches in various AFL Queensland sanctioned leagues at the facility. In 2020 the venue underwent a $2.7 million upgrade that included construction of a new multi-sport field with hybrid turf, as well as improved lighting, interchange boxes for players, coaches boxes and additional earth mounds for spectators. Consequently ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunshine Coast, Queensland
The Sunshine Coast is a peri-urban region in South East Queensland, Australia. It is the district defined in 1967 as "the area contained in the Shires of Landsborough, Maroochy and Noosa, but excluding Bribie Island". Located north of the centre of Brisbane in South East Queensland, on the Coral Sea coastline, its urban area spans approximately of coastline and hinterland from Pelican Waters to Tewantin. The area was first settled by Papuasians migrating from northern Australia. Europeans settled in the area in the 19th century, with development progressing slowly until tourism became an important industry. The area has several coastal hubs at Caloundra, Kawana Waters, Maroochydore and Noosa Heads. Nambour and Maleny have developed as primary commercial centres for the hinterland. Since 2014, the Sunshine Coast district has been split into two local government areas, the Sunshine Coast Region and the Shire of Noosa, which administer the southern and northern parts of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maroochydore Australian Football Club
Maroochydore Australian Football Club is an Australian rules football club based at Maroochydore on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland which competes in AFL Queensland leagues in South East Queensland. Their men's team have been playing in the Queensland Australian Football League, QAFL since 2020 and their women's team have been playing in the AFL Queensland Women's League, QAFLW since 2017. History Origins The Maroochydore Australian Football Club was formed to compete in the Sunshine Coast Australian Football League. This was an amateur competition that was formed in 1970 and continued until 1992. Other foundation clubs were Noosa and Nambour. In 1993, the clubs from the competition played in the Brisbane Australian Football League, and later split up into various AFL South Queensland Divisions.Roo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coorparoo, Queensland
Coorparoo is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Coorparoo had a population of 16,282 people. Geography Coorparoo is by road south-east of the Brisbane GPO. It borders Camp Hill, Holland Park, Stones Corner, Greenslopes, East Brisbane and Norman Park. Toponymy Coorparoo was chosen as the name of the suburb at a public meeting on 22 March 1875, before which it was known as Four Mile Camp. The name Coorparoo is likely derived from an Aboriginal name for Norman Creek, probably recorded by early surveyors as ''Koolpuroom''. The word is thought to refer to either a place associated with mosquitoes, or a sound made by the 'gentle dove'. The latter explanation appears doubtful though, as 'gentle dove' may mean the spotted dove, which was introduced to the area in 1912, long after the name Coorparoo was adopted. History Aboriginal history The Coorparoo clan, an Aboriginal clan, lived south of the Brisbane River and generally camped alon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giffin Park
Giffin Park is a sports venue in Coorparoo, Queensland, Coorparoo, a suburb in Brisbane, Australia. It includes an Australian rules football ground. It was formerly used by the Brisbane Lions as their secondary training venue and is used during the summer due to clashes with the Australian Cricket season. The Lions North East Australian Football League, NEAFL team formerly used it as a home ground. It has been used as a major Queensland Australian Football League venue hosting the majority of the QAFL's premier division Grand Finals in the 21st Century, including 1999-2004, 2009-2010 and 2022. See also * Sport in Queensland References Australian rules football grounds Sports venues in Brisbane Brisbane Lions North East Australian Football League grounds Coorparoo, Queensland {{Queensland-struct-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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